57, You Good-for-nothing (4 more updates)
Xie Zhinuan smiled.
“Can you drive a mule cart?”
“Yes, when my mother goes out, I drive the mule cart, hehehe!”
Xie Zhinuan decided to buy the three of them.
She paid the silver, took the three indenture contracts, and took them back to the inn.
The three only had one set of clothes to change into. The old lady was in very poor health, so Xie Zhinuan also had Yuan Liuwang help find a doctor to come over and prescribe some medicine, which the foolish girl went to decoct.
Only after the grandma had taken her medicine and gone to sleep did Xie Zhinuan start to ask some questions.
The woman’s husband’s family was named Chen, and Xie Zhinuan had no intention of changing their names. She called the woman Chen Auntie, the old lady Grandma Chen, and the foolish girl was still called the foolish girl.
Xie Zhinuan knew that with three more people, expenses would be greater. She let Grandma Chen and Chen Auntie rest at the inn and went out with the foolish girl to buy seeds. She also ordered two mule carts to transport everything back to Xiaohe Village the next day.
After all the purchases, Xie Zhinuan still had fifteen taels of silver in her hand.
Tomorrow, she planned to buy several dozen jin of pork, and then she could basically return home.
Upon returning to the inn, Xie Zhinuan said a few words to Chen Auntie, telling them to rest well and that they would set off early the next morning. She then took Routuan back to her room to rest.
She also took the opportunity to put the Blood Jade Bracelet back in the space.
Xie Zhinuan slept in the bed, and Routuan slept on a chair beside her, as it was a dog that liked cleanliness and usually didn’t sleep on the ground.
In the inn room, one person and one dog slept soundly.
In the next room, Yuan Liuwang stood by the window. Despite also being very tired, he couldn’t fall asleep no matter what.
The events of the day gave him the illusion that, no matter how hard he tried, it was impossible for him to be with Xie Zhinuan.
This feeling was very unpleasant.
If anyone could be calm about it, it was Xie Zhinuan.
Having dealt with the matters at hand, she slept soundly.
Yuanji.
The old Yuanji saw Yuan Cheng return and scrutinized him for a while. Noticing that he was covered in injuries and had obviously suffered, he finally sighed, “It’s good that you’re back!”
Yuan Cheng knelt down with a plop, “Father!”
“…”
Thousands of words remained unsaid.
The old Yuanji said nothing but arranged for Yuan Cheng to return to Xiaohe Village.
Before leaving, he spoke a few words to Yuan Cheng, telling him to take care of himself, not just for his own sake but for the children’s as well.
“A wise wife is the fortune of three generations, while a foolish mother ruins the whole brood!”
He had not seen the problem with his eldest daughter-in-law before, but only after the misfortune did he realize something was amiss.
Naturally, Yuan Cheng also understood that his own father was disappointed in him, otherwise he wouldn’t have left in the middle of the night.
With tears, he could only bid his father farewell.
He let his siblings leave, then after freshening up, he sat alone in the study long into the night before he finally heaved a sigh.
In the end, he had abandoned all conscience…
Xiaohe Village
Li Hengyi came out of the bathhouse, looking much healthier overall.
“Master!”
Li Hengyi nodded, “Have you all had your drink?”
Yuanbao nodded.
He didn’t dare mention that he had ordered men to empty the well water out of Xie Zhinuan���s well and store it all in a water tank. A group of guards had each drunk two big basins of it, and he himself had drunk several big basins, feeling his stagnant Inner Strength break through.
But fearing that Xie Zhinuan would make a fuss if she found the well water gone upon her return, he had secretly poured some well water back in.
He had tasted it afterward, and it was no longer the same.
Li Hengyi just nodded without speaking, seeming to avoid the important issues. “What did you do?”
“…” Yuanbao, embarrassed, rubbed his nose, “I emptied the well!”
“…”
Li Hengyi looked at Yuanbao, “Aren’t you afraid the young lady will come back and settle the score with you?”
“I poured some well water back in!”
Li Hengyi was stunned.
After a while, he finally grabbed something to throw at Yuanbao.
Yuanbao, with impressive speed, fled the scene smoothly.
“You scoundrel, who does things like this?” Li Hengyi scolded angrily.
Chapter 59